The IHBC-supported, UK-wide All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for ‘Conservation, Places and People’ has offered condolences to the family of the late Lord ‘Bob’ Kerslake, its former vice chair, both in writing and in person at its recent Parliamentary briefing, to be reported next week.
… We were honoured when Lord Kerslake became one of the first members…
The APPG secretariat writes:
As many of you will no doubt be aware by now, our APPG colleague Lord Kerslake sadly passed away last weekend.
Known familiarly as Bob, he had a significant career in public service, which took him from working for Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council in the early 1980s to head of the civil service for David Cameron’s coalition government.
In between those two roles, he made a major contribution to UK urban regeneration. Firstly, as the highly regarded chief executive of Sheffield council from 1997 to 2008, Lord Kerslake played a pivotal role in the regeneration of the city centre. He left that role to become the first chief executive of the Homes and Regeneration Agency, now known as Homes England, upon its foundation.
Lord Kerslake then entered the civil service to become permanent secretary of the then Department for Communities and Local Government. After leaving the civil service in 2015, he took on a range of roles, including chairing the Peabody Trust and overseeing the House of Lords 2070 Commission into rebalancing regional inequalities, displaying what seemed like a tireless energy.
We were honoured when Lord Kerslake became one of the first members of the APPG on Conservation, Places and People, agreeing to take on a role as vice-chair.
His family have asked that people who would like to can send a donation in his memory to the homelessness charity St Mungo’s via the following link:
https://checkout.mungos.org/in-memory/.
We have been informed that currently it is planned that a celebration of life event will be held in October, further details regarding which will be sent out in due course.
In the meantime, I am sure you would like to join me in expressing the APPG’s condolences to Lord Kerslake’s family in their sad loss. I will be in touch very soon with further details of next week’s APPG meeting on high streets.
See more on the APPG at conservationplacespeople.appg.info
For more background see the NewsBlog
See the Local Government Association (LGA) tribute page
